Through a colonization of three centuries Netherlands India has become a part of our country and our labour and enterprise have made it a model of colonized tropical posse: sions. The prosperity and productive power created by us have benefited not only the world but als the native population.
"We can say this without pre judice. for the facts and results are more eloquent than words and it is gratifying that this was and is admitted by everyone, in particular by Germany.
"No less than the great expert on Netherlands India the Government-adviser Helfferich. has always point-€d out to our Eastern neighbours the importance of the Netherlands og colonizers.
"We can therefore be sure that those who are striving to create a new Order in Europe will realize the necessity of maintaining the unity of the Netherlands with her tropical possessions.
"This may be a reason for optimism even if the negotiations in Batavia should take a turn for the worse, which we hope will not occur."
Raiders Over Chungking Chungking, May 26.
Fourteen planes cruised over Chungking early this morning apparently for reconnoitring purposes. The raiders flew very high and dropped no bombs. Only a few bursts of machine-gun fire were heard. The alarm was given at 8.30 and the all-clear was sounded at 10.30
Two Japanese aircraft were shot down in battles over Lanchow on May 21 and May 22, according to delayed message from that ci Forty-seven planes raided Kansu and Shensi on May 21, 27 bombing the eastern suburbs of Lanchow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.